Foundry Supplies 10GigE for Sandia Lab's Red Storm Supercomputer

Foundry Networks is supplying its 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) switches to provide the core networking fabric for the Advanced Strategic Computing Initiative's (ASCI) Red Storm supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories. The project will provide 3D, full-physics simulations in support of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. Red Storm is a highly balanced Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) supercomputer with about 10,000 processors, a peak performance of 40 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), and 10 terabytes of memory. The machine is scheduled to become operational in fiscal year 2004. Red Storm will use more than 100 ports of 10GbE on its BigIron MG8 backbone to connect the Red Storm system to resources such as a new "Visualization Cluster" for 3D modeling. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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